Kohli becomes the fastest to score 10,000 ODI runs

Virat Kohli has broken the world record of the fastest 10,000 one-day international runs, needing only 205 innings to get to the mark. He surpassed the record held by Sachin Tendulkar, who achieved the feat in 259 innings.

Kohli reached the milestone while batting on 81 during the second ODI against West Indies in Visakhapatnam. He took a single to long-on off the bowling of off-spinner Ashley Nurse.

Tendulkar, who was the first in history to breach the 10,000 mark in ODIs, got there in 2001 against Australia in Indore.

Twelve other batsmen have scored over 10,000 runs in the format. Tendulkar leads the list with 18,426 runs while Kumar Sangakkara is second with 14,234 runs. The only other active player on the list is MS Dhoni, who passed the milestone against England at Lord’s earlier this year.

Fastest to 10,000 runs in One-Day Internationals

INNINGS

PLAYER

TEAM

REACHED ON

AGE

DAYS TAKEN

205

Virat Kohli

India

October 24, 2018

29 years, 353 days

3,719

259

Sachin Tendulkar

India

March 31, 2001

27 years, 341 days

4,121

263

Sourav Ganguly

India

August 3, 2005

33 years 26 days

4,953

266

Ricky Ponting

Australia

March 24, 2007

32 years, 95 days

4,420

272

Jacques Kallis

South Africa

January 23, 2009

33 years 99 days

4,763

273

M S Dhoni

India

July 14, 2018

37 years, 7 days

4,951

278

Brian Lara

West Indies

December 16, 2006

37 years 228 days

5,881

287

Rahul Dravid

India

February 14, 2007

34 years 34 days

3,969

293

Tillakaratne Dilshan

Sri Lanka

July 26, 2015

38 years, 285 days

5,706

296

Kumar Sangakkara

Sri Lanka

February 17, 2012

34 years 113 days

4,244

299

Inzamam-ul Haq

Pakistan

September 19, 2004

34 years 200 days

4,685

328

Sanath Jayasuriya

Sri Lanka

August 9, 2005

36 years, 40 days

5,705

333

Mahela Jayawardena

Sri Lanka

November 18, 2011

34 years 175 days

5046

This is how Virat reached every progressive milestone of 1,000 runs:

MILESTONE

INNINGS

REMARKS

1,000

24

Quickest for India

2,000

53

4th Quickest for India

3,000

75

2nd Quickest for India after Shikhar Dhawan

4,000

93

4th Quickest in the world

5,000

114

Joint Second Quickest in the world after Hashim Amla with Viv Richards